Fun fact about SpeedCrunch history, the software descends from an off-hand blog post by Roberto Alsina, a KDE developer, complaining about KCalc usability [1].

Fun fact about SpeedCrunch history, the software descends from an off-hand blog post by Roberto Alsina, a KDE developer, complaining about KCalc usability [1]. Back then developers were often just unthinkingly cloning 'skeuomorphic' interfaces like Apple used back then, designing user interfaces that resembled physical objects instead of taking advantage of the opportunities afforded by computers. His blog post elicited several rapid responses from developers taking his PyQt-based mockup and turning it into a 'real' application ([2], [3]). One of those was Ariya Hidayat's "SpeedCrunch", which has been actively maintained up to the present day. I can't find Ariya's original 2004 announcement, I think the original link was http://ariya.pandu.org/blog/archives/2004/10/calculator-fever.html http://ariya.pandu.org/blog/archives/2004/10/calculator-feve... but that's dead now. But it's really neat to see how this all started from a day or two of hacking on a solution to a simple problem. [1] https://ralsina.me/stories/33.html https://ralsina.me/stories/33.html [2] https://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/P245.html https://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/P245.html [3] https://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/P247.html https://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/P247.html